A new study from Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in Iran (a country where a lot of research is conducted on natural remedies for menstrual-related problems, interestingly enough) has found two vitamins have the power to cut your discomfort dramatically: vitamin E and vitamin B6. In their study, two groups of women with high breast pain took either 200 IU of vitamin E or 40 mg. of vitamin B6 daily for two months. Within one month, the women in both vitamin groups experienced a reduction in pain by about half. By the end of the second month, their pain was reduced by about two-thirds. Not too shabby, right?
sounds nice but if you read the article and in particular the discussion, this has been done before and it didn’t quite work. in various dosages (like 6x their proposed does of vit E wasn’t working). still, something to try. because otherwise what you get is “over-the-counter painkillers and counseling”. counseling is when they tell you it’s not cancerous which is an important first thing to hear but for the rest, you’re totally on your own, and no, cyclical breast pain is not a good place to be. we’ll see.
there is also a study about soy protein, equally inconclusive.
no but how did these guys even get soy milk with 17g soy protein/200 ml, when soy milk contains 3.3 g protein/100 g. and if they just added soy protein, wouldn’t it have changed the texture of the drink, effectively killing the double blindness??